Wesley J. Smith

The media are struggling to promote excitement over new embryonic stem cell lines becoming eligible for federal research funding.  It is a change to be sure, but I think way too much is being made of it.  From the Washington Post story:Launching a dramatic expansion of government support . . . . Continue Reading »

The Senate is now considering amendments to its version of Obamacare. What a travesty.  John McCain proposed to eliminate the $400 billion in Medicare cuts.  The Democrats voted it down.  (Remember when Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to cut Medicare?) But then, another . . . . Continue Reading »

The media continue to pretend that global warming is as incontestable as the existence of gravity. That being so, they happily pitch the panic propounded by the would be world governors of the international global warming scientocracy. Take this lead from the always in the tank AP, with the SF . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently NASA’s James Hansen has been as secretive over at NASA as the UK climate warming scientists caught up on Climategate were, refusing to release data by which NASA had made its calculations puruant to a Freedom of Information Act request. A lawsuit is being filed.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

A radical in one area generally thinks radically in every other area.  Witness utilitarian bioethicist Peter—let’s permit infanticide—Singer, who has now weighed in on global warming. Predictably, it is an extreme view. From the story:We asked Australia’s best-known . . . . Continue Reading »

I couldn’t make this MSNBC headline up: “Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age.”  And the cause? Why, that old bogeyman, global warming. From the story:In the film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot express my disappointment in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in sufficiently strong terms.  I voted for him despite knowing he was not my cup of tea in some areas because I believed he would get tough on California’s potentially terminal budget problems. Now, it is years later, . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, Al Gore has finally met his match.  First, NASA’s James Hansen hopes Copenhagen will fail, not because it would destroy economies, but because it wouldn’t destroy them hard enough. From the story:In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent . . . . Continue Reading »

I could make the old joke about men dying earlier because we have to put up with women, but Secondhand Smokette would validate the study by killing me.  So let me just skip the bad joke and get to the report that claims men are genetically doomed to earlier deaths.  From the story:In . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide ideologues at Compassion and Choices—formerly the Hemlock Society—pretend that their agenda is very limited and constrained, merely a teensy-weensy safety valve for use when nothing else can be done to relieve suffering. That’s all phony, baloney of course. The . . . . Continue Reading »